Unintended; Unlocking a Nation's Pregnancy Secrets

Season 1

An investigative journalist digs up century-old tales of unplanned pregnancies outside of marriage, confronting the price of shame as described by the couples' descendants. She takes the readers along during the limited series and discovers that not everyone is ready to acknowledge their ancestors' pasts, even 100 years later.

20203 episodes13+

Documentary•Drama

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S1 E1 - Unintended Chapter 1: Myrtle and Harry
May 1, 2020
44min
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In the spring of 1913, five law enforcement officials pile into a car to make the 115-mile trip to the small college town of Hopkinton, Iowa. Their goal: to exhume the body of Myrtle Irish, the daughter of a wealthy couple. They run into resistance as they try to determine whether she died of an abortion, then a criminal surgery.
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S1 E2 - Unintended Chapter 2: Imogene and Cliff
June 1, 2020
34min
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An actress from Chapter 1 approaches the Unintended director/journalist after a day of filming to share her family's story of an unintended pregnancy. Her mother was born in 1930 in an opulent Kansas City home for unwed mothers. The identity of the birth parents remained a secret for decades, but that would soon change.
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S1 E3 - Unintended Chapter 3: Maude and Ira
July 1, 2020
23min
13+
Maude Stone's name appears in a court document related to the story in Chapter 1 of Unintended. Maude's boyfriend has to summon Maude's mother as Maude is dying after an attempted abortion. And a young man's "voice" is finally heard.
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